Hans Heinz Lüttgen

Hans Heinz Lüttgen (actually Theodor Heinrich Lüttgen ; born November 16, 1895 (according to another source 1898) in Düsseldorf , † July 1976 in New York ) was a German architect , interior designer and artist. Based on his designs, u. a. in Cologne the Sartory halls and housing developments in Riehl and in Wuppertal a number of single-family houses and villas that can be assigned to the New Building style of the 1920s and 1930s and which now enjoy "cult status".

Life and career

Lüttgen was born in Düsseldorf as the eldest of seven children of worker Peter Heinrich Lüttgen and his wife Maria Katarina, née Müller, and attended the humanistic grammar school in his hometown. Self-taught and through guest lectures at the Düsseldorf Art Academy , he acquired specialist knowledge, while at the same time he learned his profession through practical work in various Düsseldorf architecture offices.

At the beginning of the 1920s he worked as an architect in the Cologne office of Fritz August Breuhaus ; from around 1924 he was a freelance architect in Cologne.

In the 1920s he belonged to the group of "Cologne Progressives" around Max Ernst , Franz Wilhelm Seiwert , August Sander , Heinrich Hoerle - with whom he was close friends - and others. In 1928 he was one of the founders of the Block Kölner Baukünstler group .

The “Kölner Studio” arts and crafts studio opened in 1929 on Minoritenstrasse, where he designed fabrics, wallpapers and textiles, and only existed for a few months. Before that, his work had been shown in 1928 in the Raumkunstausstellung in Düsseldorf and in 1929 in the Kölnischer Kunstverein in the exhibition Raum und Wandbild . His architectural designs were recognized in a joint exhibition with well-known Cologne architects in the Cologne Museum of Applied Arts .

Lüttgen was a member of the German Werkbund , the Association of German Architects and the Reich Association of German Artists .

In 1939 he emigrated from Germany, first to Switzerland (until 1942) and then to São Paulo in Brazil. In 1948 he reached the USA and stayed in New York until the end of his life , where he worked as an architect and urban planner as well as in industrial design.

Lüttgen was married twice, from the first marriage to Dora Delfs, which was divorced in 1930, their son Claus Peter Lüttgen (* 1927) emerged; his second marriage was in the USA with Renée Lüttgen.

buildings

1924: Interior construction of the Carl Sellmer bank in Hamburg , Fuhlentwiete 52 (?)

1924: Various buildings of the "Luna-Park" of the American pleasure park GmbH in Cologne-Riehl, Riehler Strasse 161-165

1926: Furnishing of his own apartment in Cologne-Neustadt-Süd , Volksgartenstraße 58

1926: Haus Heineberg (house for Dr. Hugo Heineberg) in (Wuppertal-) Vohwinkel , Schlieffenstraße 61 (under monument protection )

1926–1927: Haus Grobel (house for Dr. Emil Grobel) in (Wuppertal-) Elberfeld , Jägerhofstrasse 129 (under monument protection)

1926–1927: Villa Espenlaub : Residence for Dr. Walter Fischer, today called BauHausFischer , in (Wuppertal-) Barmen , Rudolf-Ziersch-Straße 3 (under monument protection)

1927: Interior of the apartment of the painter Fritz Kronenberg in Hamburg , Moorweidenstrasse 19

1927–1928: Apartment building for Kölnische Wohnungsbau GmbH in Cologne-Klettenberg , Ölbergstrasse 79 (with Wilhelm Schulz)

1927–1928 or 1929: Haus Friedländer (residential building for Georg Friedländer) in (Wuppertal-) Barmen, Waldemarstraße 3 (under monument protection)

1928: "Telecommunications and radio" exhibition room at the Pressa exhibition in Cologne-Deutz (exhibition grounds)

1928: Poensgen-Heyer exhibition stand at the Pressa in Cologne-Deutz (exhibition grounds)

1928–1930: Apartment buildings in the Naumannsiedlung of the GAG in Cologne-Riehl , Boltensternstrasse 111–131 / Stammheimer Strasse 171–175 (with Manfred Faber )

1929–1930: Renovation of the “Charlott” dance hall with the “Cherie” bar in Cologne-Altstadt-Nord , Brückenstraße 15 (paintings by Heinrich Hoerle )

1930: Conversion of a villa for Ferdinand Buschhausen in Cologne-Marienburg , Am Südpark 15

1930: Conversion of a house for Dr. Karl Krekeler in Cologne-Mülheim , Münsterer Strasse 21

1930: Redesign of the Dr. Andreas Becker + Alfred Newman in Cologne's old town, Wallrafplatz 4 (with Heinrich Hoerle )

1930: Furnishing of his own apartment in Cologne-Neustadt, Hohenzollernring 79

1930–1931: Conversion of the “Rheinterrassen” in (Cologne) - Rodenkirchen , Heinrich-Lübke-Ufer / Hauptstraße

1931: Reconstruction and new construction of the entrance buildings of the amusement facilities “Greater Cologne” in Cologne's old town, Friesenstrasse 44–46

1931–1932: Conversion of the “Kaiserhof” cabaret in Cologne's old town, Salomonsgasse 11

1933: Furnishing of his own apartment in Cologne-Braunsfeld , Kitschburger Straße 229

1933: Conversion of the restaurant and variety show "Burghof" for Allianz und Stuttgarter Verein AG in Cologne's old town, Hohe Straße 38

1933–1934: House for Hans Fischer in Oberlungwitz , Ostweg 6 (construction management by Jupp Becker, garden design by Bernhard Dannenberg, garden sculpture by Willy Meller )

1933–1935: House for the factory owner Johannes Layritz in Hohenstein-Ernstthal , Heinrich-Wichern-Straße 3–5 (construction management by Friedrich Hähnlein, gardens by Bernhard Dannenberg)

1934: Renovation of the “Charlott” dance hall with “Cherie” bar in Cologne's old town, Brückenstraße 15 (with Sebastian Heimig)

1934–1935: Conversion and extension of the “Café Wien” in Cologne-Neustadt, Hohenzollernring 16–18

1934–1935: Group of houses for the Allianz and Stuttgarter Verein AG in Wuppertal-Elberfeld, Viktoriastraße 60–66 / Von-der-Tann-Straße 23–25 (under monument protection)

1934–1935: “Prinzenhof” residential and commercial building in Cologne-Neustadt, Hohenzollernring 1/3 / Aachener Strasse

1935–1937: Crematorium in the Westfriedhof in Cologne-Vogelsang , Venloer Straße

around 1936: Children's playground with children's theater in the zoo in Cologne-Riehl , Riehler Strasse 173

1937: House for the painter Werner Hentzen in the "Schlageterstadt" in Düsseldorf-Golzheim , Karl-Kleppe-Straße 1 (as part of the Reich exhibition "Schaffendes Volk" )

1937–1938: House for factory owner Horst Bentz in Minden , Blumenstrasse 25

1938: Reconstruction and extension of a house for Oskar Kind in (Cologne) - Rodenkirchen , Brückenstraße 26

literature

Wolfram Hagspiel : Cologne. Marienburg. Buildings and architects of a villa suburb. (= Stadtspuren. Monuments in Cologne , Volume 8.) JP Bachem Verlag, Cologne 1996, Volume 2, pp. 878f. (Short biography and list of works)
Stefanie Schäfers: From the Werkbund to the four-year plan. The exhibition "Schaffendes Volk", Düsseldorf 1937. Droste Verlag, Düsseldorf 2001, ISBN 3-7700-3045-1 . (= Sources and research on the history of the Lower Rhine , Volume 4.)
Werner Schäfke (ed.), Wolfram Hagspiel (commentary): Hans Heinz Lüttgen. (Annotated publication with a catalog raisonné of a volume conceived in 1932 for the Neue Werkkunst series, but never printed) limited edition, Cologne 2011. (without ISBN)
Hermann J. Mahlberg and Hella Nußbaum, The Awakening around 1900 and Modernism in the Architecture of Wuppertal, Wuppertal, 2008 p. 297 ff.

Web links

Stefanie Schäfers: From the Werkbund to the four-year plan. The exhibition Schaffendes Volk, Düsseldorf 1937 ( Memento from September 23, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Section LÜTTGEN, Hans Heinz (short biography, list of works and references) as of September 2010
Architektur-wuppertal.de Architecture guide for Wuppertal, Villa Dr. Grobel as an example of "New Building"
Press release of the City of Cologne, April 20, 2011: Book about Cologne architect Hans Heinz Lüttgen found

Individual evidence

^ Ruth Meyer-Kahrweg : Architects, civil engineers, builders, property developers and their buildings in Wuppertal. Wuppertal 2003, ISBN 3-928441-52-3 .
↑ Wolfram Hagspiel gave in 1996 January 7, 1977 as the date of death, as did Stefanie Schäfers with reference to Hagspiel. In the most recent publication by Wolfram Hagspiel from 2011, this corrects itself to July 1976 in Murray Hill / New York based on new research. (exact title of the publications under literature )
^ Wolfram Hagspiel: Hans Heinz Lüttgen. In: Werner Schäfke , Wolfram Hagspiel (Ed.): Hans Heinz Lüttgen. Cologne 2011. (without pagination; publication of a retrospective volume conceived by Lüttgen in 1932)

personal data
SURNAME	Lüttgen, Hans Heinz
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Lüttgen, Theodor Heinrich (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German architect, interior designer and artist
DATE OF BIRTH	November 16, 1895 or November 16, 1898
PLACE OF BIRTH	Dusseldorf
DATE OF DEATH	July 1976
Place of death	New York City , United States

[1] Ruth Meyer-Kahrweg : Architects, civil engineers, builders, property developers and their buildings in Wuppertal. Wuppertal 2003, ISBN 3-928441-52-3 .

[2] Wolfram Hagspiel gave in 1996 January 7, 1977 as the date of death, as did Stefanie Schäfers with reference to Hagspiel. In the most recent publication by Wolfram Hagspiel from 2011, this corrects itself to July 1976 in Murray Hill / New York based on new research. (exact title of the publications under literature )

[3] Wolfram Hagspiel: Hans Heinz Lüttgen. In: Werner Schäfke , Wolfram Hagspiel (Ed.): Hans Heinz Lüttgen. Cologne 2011. (without pagination; publication of a retrospective volume conceived by Lüttgen in 1932)